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patio|ˈpætɪəʊ, ˈpɑːtɪəʊ|
[Sp., = court of a house.]
1. orig. An inner court, open to the sky, in a Spanish or Spanish-American house. Hence, in extended uses (not in Spanish or Spanish-American contexts), a courtyard or enclosure; a paved area belonging to a house and usu. adjoining it.
1828W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 287 The patios planted with orange and citron trees and refreshed by fountains. 1887J. Ball Nat. in S. Amer. 161 The building included three small courts, or patios. 1891Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. vi. 36 The central square, the patio or whatever it must be called, reeks. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 38/2 The typical Mexican house is built in the form of a hollow square... In the unroofed quadrangle, or patio, as it is called, is spent the greater portion of what open air life the women..enjoy. 1900St. Barbe Mod. Spain 48 Crowding round the patio door each morning. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 271 He was..dancing with her out on the patio to the rhumba orchestra. 1947Chicago Maroon 25 July 2/1 Tables will be set up in the patio with free cokes, and a faculty member or new student from each state will be on hand to welcome new students. 1949Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 22/2 The patio is really an extra room without a roof. It is protected on three sides by the house itself and on the north by the bank. 1955J. Cannan Long Shadows i. 16 The addition of two bathrooms built over a sun-room, which reduced the sooty little triangular garden to a size convenient to the construction of a patio. 1957C. Brooke-Rose Languages of Love 23 Bernard sat now in an imitation patio under an imitation palm-tree. 1959Observer 22 Mar. 1/1 But behind is a small golf course and a patio where a naval commander could be seen arranging the cushions. Filipino mess boys have polished up the interior. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 378 Eitel is smoking a cigarette on the patio. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 45 (Advt.), Detached 4-bedroom home on large fenced lot, beautiful patio. 1969Daily Tel. 11 Nov. 17 Shops, dotted about among tree-strewn patios, fountains and open-air cafés [in Paris]. 1972[see limbo3]. 1973Irish Times 2 Mar. 22/8 (Advt.), Bungalow: Dundrum—Scandinavian style, central heating, living room.. looking onto secluded patio. 1976E. Scarrow N.Z. Vegetable Gardening Guide 5 A number of vegetables can be grown..in tubs or pots on a patio. 1977Austral. House & Garden Jan. 39/2 This sunny family room has one wall of glass looking out to the plant-hung pergola and patio and the lush small garden.
2. Mining. (See quot. 1881.) So patio process.
1845Chem. Gaz. 1 Sept. 373 The preparation of magistral, an indispensable agent in the amalgamation by patio. 1856Hutching's Mag. Sept. 104/1 The ore deposited on the patio, another set of laborers engage in separating the large lumps and reducing them to the size of common paving stones. 1863Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci. II. 133 No experiments have been made in working this ore by the patio or Spanish-American amalgamation process. 1867J. A. Philips Mining & Metall. Gold & Silver xvi. 334 At the hacienda of Regla..the patio, comprising an area an acre and a half in extent, is carefully covered with a wooden floor. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 343 Amalgamating-ore, which has been worked by the old Mexican process on the patio. 1881― Mining Gloss., Patio, the yard where the ores are cleaned and assorted; also, the amalgamation floor, or the Spanish process itself of amalgamating silver ores on an open floor. 1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 588 Our Spanish-American neighbors, by the patio produced a very slow and incomplete contact. 1896C. H. Shinn Story of Mine 82 He treated them [sc. silver sulphurets] with the chemicals of the patio process. 1913Trans. Inst. Mining & Metallurgy XXII. 661 The ore is received in the ‘patio’ or yard adjoining the mill, where it is weighed. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 664/1 The patio, or Mexican, process of separating silver from the ore by amalgamation with quicksilver was perfected in Pachuca by Bartolomé de Medina in the 16th century.
3. attrib. and Comb., as patio block, patio furniture, patio garden, patio model, patio stand; patio door, a large, glass, sliding door leading to a garden or balcony.
1973Houston (Texas) Chron. Mag. People, Places, Pleasures 14 Oct. 3 (Advt.), 7½{pp} × 16{pp} concrete patio blocks. 1979Sci. Amer. Apr. 110/2 The concrete slabs were ‘patio blocks’ that weigh 6·5 kilograms and were 40 centimeters long, 19 centimeters wide and four centimeters thick.
1973Daily Tel. 10 July 15/1 Usually the patio door is a replacement for the rather clumsy French doors which were put in by the thousand between the wars... The new sliding patio doors are vastly superior. A complete wall of glass, they can be five feet wide or even extend, with several panels, up to 24ft wide. Usually they are around 7ft high. Ibid. 21 July 3 (Advt.), We are Patio Door specialists. 1975Oxford Jrnl. 31 Jan. 9 (Advt.), Add a new dimension to your living. With patio doors that slide open at a touch on warm summer days and close snugly to seal out the rain and draughts of winter. Their slim aluminium frames won't warp or need painting. 1976Homes & Gardens July 116/2 Although patio doors are becoming an increasingly popular feature in houses, as yet there is no safety legislation governing their manufacture.
1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 9 Moderately priced all-wood patio furniture. 1973C. Williams Man on Leash (1974) i. 5 The standard small swimming pool and sundeck with patio furniture and umbrellas.
1912J. London Let. 18 Jan. (1966) 360, I should like to see a novel of mine come out from the presses back of the patio garden. 1976Outdoor Living (N.Z.) I. ii. 44 For the patio garden in the ideal location on the sunny side of the house the list of plants is unending.
1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 13 Patio model [gas-fired grill] with its own 18-inch diameter mounting base.
Ibid. Barbecue on patio stand. |